Coin-sorter.



PATBNTED MAH. w, Im07.

W. A. RALSTN. GOIN SORTER.

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WILLIAM A. RALSTON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMEMTS, OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE R. FULLER AND ONE-FOURTH TO vITRAIIK T. BYRNE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

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Be it known that I, NVILLIAM A. RALSTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Sorters, ol which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin-sorters, and consists in the apparatus 'hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is tol provide a coin-sorting device that is ei'iicient, simple to make, and `diliicult to derange.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical seetion through a box containing a coin-sorting device embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through a similar box contain-4 ing the same coin-sorting device having a slight modification in its construction, and Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Y

. This coin-sorting device is preferably made of sheet metal, although it may be cast or manufactured from the 'solid but in the drawings hereof it is shown as made of sheet metaLv The device embodies an inclined troughshaped guideway 1, which may be open at the top, as shown most clearly in Fig. 3, and is provided with an inlet-orifice, shown in the present case in the vertical extei'lsion 2 at the' upper end of said guideway. The device is adapted particularly vto separate coins of different diameters, and for this purpose at diflcrent suitable distances from the entrance end of the guideway are provided a series of outlets for the respective coins. These outlets are constructed by cuttinga slot having the shape of two sides of a right angle. through a wall of said guideway and then bending out the corner thus freed.4 'lhedistance from the bottom of the guideway to the edge 3, that is parallel to the bottom of the guideway and forms part of the selecting device for the coins of least diameter, is such that the coin may just pass through the orifice underneath said edge 3, but that any coin of' larger diameter will not pass under said edge 3, but

will continue on in the guideway. The corresponding edge 4 of the next oriiiee is'of such diameter as just to permit the coin for which it is adapted to ass out from the guideway, and the next edge 5 is still further from the Speeication of Letters Patent,

ipplieatiou filed March 19, 1906. Serial No. 306,750.

Patentedmarch i9, 1907.

bottom of the guideway and is adapted to `permit another coin of the next greater diam- 5 veter to pass out therefrom, While from the end of the guideWay-as, for instance, through' an orifice (lianother coin of still larger diameter.I may .Y pass through. The guideway is'fnot'only inclined from its begin* 6oI ning downward to its discharging end, but is also inclinedin a plane intersecting a plane passing through the bottom of the guideway, 'so that coins will tip, ahd'roll along the side having the Y'disc hargeop'enin s 7, 8, and 9", 65 corresponding to the graded 'e ges 3, r4, and 5. The corners 10, 11, and 12 are bent outward, so that the coin ruiming along thel inner surL face of the guideway w1ll,.when i't'begms to` pass outfrom the guideway and. te come in' 70 contact with the corner .10, gradually tilt more and more outward from the-guideway, so that a certainty of discharge is obtained. In order that the coins may be kept apart,v the coin-sortingA device above described is ,75- usually placed in a box provided with segregating means for the respective coins. Thus in li ig. v1 the box has a series of partitions 13,

yforming compartments in the box' for coins 4 In the device shown 8o y of the different sizes. in Fig. 2 tongues 14 are bent out from the' guideway itself, so that coins issuing tlnou'gh. the discharge-orifices shall strike the tn mguesv and be caused to-drop directly into the compertinent underneath for that coin. In Fig. 2 the partitions 15 catch the coins after they have been checkedf by the tongues 14 and have dropped lrom the guideway.v

What I claim isl 1. In a coin-sorting devi'ce, an inclined 9o guidewayhaving substantially right-angled slots in one Wall, one side of each slot being .substantially parallel to the bottom of the guideway and at La distance therefrom slightly greater than-the diameter of a particular coin, the other side of said slot e2.;-A tending to the bottom of the guideway and the free corner of the wall being bent outward from the guideway, thejsaid slots being so ar# g ranged that the -largercoins will be discharged throu h the vertical slots nearer lthe end of the gui eway.

2. In a coin-sortig device, a guideway having a longitudinaliand a transverse inl clination an having substantially right- ,M5 angled slots in the lower Wall thereofuone 'each slot beingsubstantiallypllel nce'therefrom slightly. greeter l,their the ierneter of s, particular coin, the'othei, side eid slotextending to .thebottoinffof the substantially psrell l ton-the bottom of the '7:15 gniidevveyv and 1 distance therefrom ,slightly greater than the diameter of e percnlar eQinL4 the other side of seid slot ex-.

tqgg'thebottom of the guideway and mthe guideway, the saidslots being so ar- :urged that. the Ylarger coinsryvill be disthrough the Vertical slots nearer the erbottom of the guidewey endete' dis- 'dewayend the free corneroi the Wall belfrcercone of the Wall being bent outward `end ofthe guidewey, end n stop for the coins issningffrom eechvertical slot.

4. ln a coin-sortingr device, a guidewsy hei/ing o longitudinal end n transverse inclination and having snbstuntielly rightengled slot@ in the lower wall thereof, one

side of each slot being substantially parallel to the bottom of the guidewey end et a distencje therefrom slightly greater thun the diameter of a particular coin, the other side of said slot extending to the bottom of the guidewny, and the free corner of the well being?r bent outward from the gnidewuy, the said slots being so arranged that tlielnrger coins Will be discharged through the vertical slots nearer the end of the guideway, and e stop for the coins issuing from each Vertical slot.

` WILLIAM A. RALSTON.

v/Vitnesses: v

D. GUR'NEE, L. THON. 

